Urge elected officials to protect gun rights

Are Social Security, Medicare and the Affordable Act, etc. worth losing to eliminate the rights of others? Can you afford to pick up the tab for the current anti-firearm proposals?

Many in the Democratic party believe Republicans are on the ropes. They think they have a permanent advantage and can indulge the most radical elements in the party without consequences, but these things are cyclical.

Each party has made this misjudgment before. The 2012 election was far less decisive than they lead you to believe and the Republican Party is regrouping and evaluating what needs to be done to regain power. A few closer races with better-chosen Republican candidates may be all it takes. It has happened before and will happen again.

Prior to the 2012 election, Democrats generally kept anti-firearms rhetoric under wraps. Following the election, elements of the party immediately launched a full-scale assault on everyone's Second Amendment rights. Voters will not forget this and it will take a long time for the Democratic Party to regain the trust of the electorate if these elements successfully force through their agenda.

If you are a gun owner standing on the sidelines thinking you are not affected by this round of gun control, look at New York to see your future. You will be affected by the next ban or the one after that until you have nothing.

The anti-Second Amendment extremists' strategy is incremental. Each round of "compromise" for "common-sense regulations" is intended to steal progressively more rights from Second Amendment supporters and gun owners while they compromise nothing.

Contact your representative, senators and the White House and urge them not to do this.